> I want to upgrade to the 0.8.8 ethereal from 0.7.7
Presumably you mean "0.8.1".
> What process should I take? I tried to do 'make uninstall' but that
> didn't work.
What did it do instead of working? I downloaded the 0.7.7 source,
configured and built it, did a "make install", and then did a "make
uninstall", and it appears to have gotten rid of the few things it
installed (the Ethereal binary, the "manuf" file, and the Ethereal man
page).
Did you try doing the "make uninstall" from the 0.8.1 source directory?
That *might* have failed in 0.8.1 hadn't been installed yet; the
prototype Makefiles that GNU automake constructs (and that the configure
script generated by GNU autoconf turns into Makefiles) are probably set
up so that "make uninstall" uninstalls the version that "make install"
in the same directory would install, not to uninstall arbitrary versions
of the software.
However, given that, as indicated, 0.7.7 installed only three files, and
that installing 0.8.1 overwrites those three files, there's no *need* to
do an uninstall; just install 0.8.1. I suspect that upgrades will, in
the future, probably continue to be doable simply by installing the new
version.